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The Von Kailern family mansion (the former palace of an archbishop) is overrun by a plague of sponging Croatian relatives; Milli's gentle father fitfully writes his futile memoirs; her dashing brother Karli spends his nights gambling, his days wooing nouveau riche heiresses. Milli drifts moodily through her days...
Author Edith de Born, fiftyish, is herself Viennese, lives in Belgium as the wife of a French banker. She writes in a rather stiff English that never conveys the cozy, weary sloppiness of Viennese upper-class slang. And many cliches of her adopted language apparently still strike her as fresh...
4. Lantern pictures showing the early monkish dwellings and typical specimens of Viharas and Chaityas (Bhaja, Kennery, Karli, Ajanta).-The sculptures and frescoes of Ajanta.
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